Mounting for cards, photographs, and the like



June' ll, 1940. A, A, AINSWRTH 2,204,098

MOUNTING FOR CARDS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND THE LIKE Filed ont. 24,1958` 2'sheets-snm; 1

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MOUNTING FOR VCARDS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND THE LIKE Filed oet. 24. 195e 2-sama-snm 2 Patented June 11, 1940 MoUN'rm'G ron calms, Pnov'roourns,

Alben A. nimma, N. Y.

Application october 24. ms. sum N. zumo somma. (ol. izo-1mA Theinvention relates to the art of mounting and Illing papers, autographs,clippings, samples,

, scrap book entries and other strips or articles of paper, cloth orother fabric or material and more particularly relatively stil! articlessuch as cards or photographs, and is intended primarily as anvimprovement on the invention set forth in my prior tent No. 1,461,570datd July 10, 1923, and Patent No. 1,862,450 dated June '1, 1932. 19 Thepresent application is a continuation-in-part of my prior applicationSerial No. 30,616 iiled July l0, 1935 now Patent No. 2,142,261, datedJanuary 3, 1939, which in turn is a continuationin-part of an earlierapplication Serial No. 699,780 iiled November 25, 1933, now Patent No.2,038,468

dated April 21, 1936, the entire disclosures of which are herebyincorporated by reference as part of the disclosure of the presentapplication.

In common with my Patent No. 1,862,450, I

prefer to employ a backing or folder of comparatively still' materialhaving one 0r more strips of tough, flexible material secured tothebacking and having tongues or tabs ior adhesively retaining the slips orarticles to be filed. and the broad object 'of the invention isaccordingly to improve and simplify the mountings disclosed in saidpatent and to furnish quick, easy, economical and permanent methods ofmountings cards, photographs, snapshops, oilice data and the like in aconvenient overlapping manner so that a portion oi each article" whenmounted is always visible, and also so that-when turned back thecontents written or printed on one or both sides oi the mounted articleare clearly visible.

A more specic object of the invention is to improve the form of tonguesor tabs employed in the mounting so`as to give additional mountingstrength. A further object is to provide means for securing perfectalignment of the cards,

photos, etc.. without the necessary use of guide lines. Another speciilcobject of the invention is ,to provide, in combination with a backing, aplurality o! separate and individual mounting strips, each adapted tocarry a single card or the like,

such strips with the cards mounted thereon being arranged in batteryupon the backing in such a manner that the cards overlap one anotherwith portions of each card visible. A further object is to provide amounting strip with tongues which 60 are easily folded back. Stillanother object is to provide a cheap and economical method for forming aplurality of the individual strips from a sheet of material with minimumloss oi such material. Il Other obieots oi thev invention will beapparent from the accompanying drawings and the following detaileddescription, inwhich are set forth for the purpose of illustrationvarious specific embodiments oi' the inventive thought involved, it ,y

being understood that these specific embodiments are intended asillustrative only andnot as limiting the invention.

In the drawings: f

Fig. 1 shows an open album or other book having cards assembled inoverlappingv order by l means of a iiling or mounting strip on one faceand a filing strip on the other to which cards are adapted to be securedand mounted inoverlapping order, one card being shown in the process oi'being mounted. p u

Fig. 2 is a rear view showing a modified form of filing or mountingstrip which may be used with the album shown in Fig. -1-,or with anyother suitable backing.

Fig. 3 is a rear view showing a further modiiied 20 filing strip to bemounted upon a suitable backing.

Fig. 4 is a rear view showing still another form Aoi? illing strip. y y

Fig. 5 shows a iilingstrip comprising a single l row of tongues.

Fig. 6 shows an open album on one face of which the ling strip of Fig. 3is applied and on 'the other face the tiling strip of Fig. 4 is mounted.

Fig. 7 shows an open album provided with guide lines to assist inaligning individual strips, 30 upon one page of which the illing stripsoi'Flg.

v 8 are applied and on the other face the filing strips of Fig. 9.

Fig. 8 showsindividual filing strips which may be cut from thecontinuous strip of Fig. 4.

Fig. 9 shows individual illing strips which may be cut from thecontinuous strip of Fig. 5.

ialig. 10 shows another form o! individual filing s r p.

Fig. .11 shows still another form. 40 Fig. l2 shows a furthermodiilcation. Fig. 13 shows still another form. Figs. 14 and 15 indicatetwo additional modifications.

Figs. 16, 1'1 and 18 indicate steps .in a method 45" N0. 2,142,261 datedJanuary 3, 1939. The backing sheet is shown inFlgs. 1, 6 and 'I of thepresent drawings, but is adapted for use with each of the forms ofmounting strips herein disclosed.

To this backing a mounting or filing strip II of relatively toughflexible material such as cloth, paper, orthe like is adapted to beapplied. which strip may be of the general type disclosed and claimed inmy Patent No. 1,862,450 dated June 7, 1932. This strip is preferablyprovided with an adhesive gum coating on its-rear surface. the frontsurface being preferably non-adhesive. 'I'he strip is shown as providedwith a plurality of transverse incisions i2 forming upturned tabs ortongues I3 integral with the strip. Each tab or tongue beingformed fromstrip II, has on its rear side aportion of the gum coating Vwhich coversthe rear side of the strip. v Y

These tabs are adapted to be bent outwardly from the back for thepurpose of mounting cards, photographs or the like I4 and to'facilitatesuch bending operation transverse score lines I5 may b'e appliedpreferably at th time the tabs are formed. These score lines may extendentirely across'the strip or only between the incisions as may bepreferred.

In mounting a card upon the filing strip the lower edge of the card isinserted beneath the tab' or tabs I3 as shown at the right ofFig. 1 andadhesively secured thereto.. The card may then be turned down about thetab or tabs to theposi- 'tion show at the left of Fig. 1.

Owing tol the relative stiiness of the card as comparedl with theflexibility of the tabs the entire bending: operation wll take placewithin the tab itself as distinguished from the arrangement shown. in myprior Patent No. 1,862,450 wherein relatively ilexible slips arecontemplated as compared with. the stili' cards preferably employedaccording to the present invention.

It will be obvious thatmany forms ofhinges, tabs or tongues and manyarrangements of hinges, tabs or tongues upon the filing strip and uponthe backing may be employed within the scope of my invention. In Fig. 1,for example, I have shown a very eiective arrangement of tabs which isdesigned to hold vthe cards or' the like firmly in position. In thisarrangement each card is held by two upwardly extending tabs` I3 and anintermediate tab I6 which is adapted to engage the opposite side of thecard from that to which *the tabs I3 are secured. As shown the tabs I3are arranged .in two outer rows with the tabs I6 in an intermediatevertical row. Tabs I3 are shown as of inverted V form and the tip ofeach lower tab extends above the line connecting the ends of theincision I2 which forms the tab next a above it.

In Fig. 2 there is shown a rear view of a slightly modified form oftiling strip which is to be adapted to any" suitable backing such asthat vshown in Figs. 1, 6.or 7. In this form two vertical rows of tabsI3, Il are shown, the tabs'all extending upwardly and the intermediaterow of downwardly extending tabs being omitted. The backing sheet curedto the tabs or tongues in lthe manner deaaococa scribed inconnectionwith Figs. 1 and 2. It will be noted that the strips areperforated so that the rows or tongues may be separated and appliedindividually instead of as a single strip. When a plurality of suchindividual nl ingstrips are mounted upon a backing and cards appliedthereto the arrangement is the same as vthough the complete stripcontaining a plurality of rows of tongues were applied as aunit, theindividual strips being applied so as to form substantially a.continuous sheet.

A very similar construction is shown in Fig. 4

-wherein the tongues or tabs 2l are formed by curved rather thanstraightincisions and only twov tabs are shown in a single lateral row. Theserows of tabs or tongues are adapted to be sepaunits as illustrated inFigs. 7 and 9, or may be I separated along a line intermediate thetongues vto formlan individual mounting such as is vshown in Fig. 5. f l

Ifdesired the backing may be provided with guide lines 23 and 24 tofacilitate mounting of the iiling strips. One such arrangement is shownin Fig. 6. On the page at the left of the figure the form of Illingstrip shown in Fig. 3 is illustrated as applied by means of the guidelines and on the page at the right of the strip the -form oi' mountingstrip shown in Fig. 4 is illustrated. The filing strips may be furnishedin oionvenient sizes to correspond with the guide nes. f

In Fig. 'l the backing is shown as provided with ruled vertical andhorizontal lines 25 and 26 to facilitate mounting the individual strips,the arrangement belng 'similar to that shown in Fig.

' 12 of Patent No. 2,038,468 dated'Aprilv2l, 1936,

and in Fig. i of my co-pending application Serial No. 30,616 now PatentNo. 2,142,261 dated January 3, 1939.- `At the left of this figure theindividual units illustrated in Fig. 8 are shown applied and at theright the umts illustrated' 1n Fig. 9 are shown applied. Obviously whenproperlyapplied the individual strips make up a composite assemblywhichconstitutes a substantially continuous filing strip mounted upon thebacking similar to what is illustrated in Fig. 6.

Various forms of individual strips may be employed. Those shown in Fig.8 may be formed from the composite strip shown in Fig. 4. Those in Fig.9 may bev formed from the composite strip shown in Fig. 5, and thatshown in Fig. 11 may be formed from the composite strip shown in Fig. 3.The filing strip shown in Fig. 1l is the same as that illustrated inFig. 14 of my Patent No. 2,038,468 which is shown assembled in Fig. 12of that patent. Other forms of strips are shown in Figs. 10 and 12 ofthe present application which correspond with those shown in Figs. 'Iand! respectivelyf my application Serial No. 30,616 now Patent No.2,142,261. In Fig. 13 an individual strip containing two upwardlypointing tongues I3 and a -downwardly pointing tongue Il such asillustrated in Fig. lis shown.

'In Fig. 14 a simple form of mounting strip is half is adapted to besecured to a backing leaving the other half free for the mounting of asuitable card, after which the card is turned over` about the hinge line32. Where a plurality of these strips aremounted on a backing andsuitably assembled by the aid of scorelines such as shown for examplefinFig. 'I it will be obvious that the, mounted cards will overlap oneanother in a manner similar to that shown in Fig. 1.

InFig. 15 a unit mounting having a single tongue is shown such a-mounting strip being readily formed from composite strips similar tothat shown in Fig. 5, the individual strips being cut out alongtransverse lines extending midway between the tongues. When a pluralityof such mounts are applied contiguous to one another the assemblyconstitutes a substantially continuous strip, and the cards applied tothe individual tongues will overlap one another as shown in Fig. 1.

It has been shown that individual mounting strips may be separated fromvertical rows of strips. Figs. 16, 1'?y and 18 illustrate an efficientmanner by which a plurality of individual mounting strips such as shownin Fig. 10 may be formed from a single strip 40. This strip may ifdesired be first gummed on one side, then scored and cut as illustratedin Fig. 17, after which the individual strips may be separated asillustrated in Fig. 18. Y

Obviously any of the strips herein shown are adapted to be applied toany of the backings and cards applied to the strips in the mannerpreviously described.

While a number of different forms and embodiments of myinvention havebeen disclosed it is apparent that further modiilcations and variationsmay be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

It will be noted that the weakened, perforated or scored lines on thestrip hinges serve to facilitate the bending back of the hinges, andwhere twolor more hinges are used in horizontal formation,V the bases ofall of the hinges are in alignment and thereby eliminate the necessityfor4 using printed lineson the backing or measuring the distances whenfiling or mounting is done.

I claim:

1. A mount for cards and the like composed of a mounting strip ofiiexible sheet material adapted to consecutively mount a plurality ofcards in overlapping relation to each other on a backing member, saidstrip having a gum coating on its rear side, a non-adhesive front side,and

-a plurlity of transverse incisions defining free ends of tabs' integralwith the strip. each tab having on one side a portion of the gumcoating, and a non-adhesive opposite side, said tabs being bent outwardfrom the strip and folded against the non-adhesive front side thereofwith its nonadhesive side inward, the portions of the gum coating on thetabs being exposed at the outer side of the strip, the gummed side .ofthe strip being attachable to a backing member, and cards or the likebeing attachable to the gummed sides of the tabs so that they lie inoverlapped relation on the outer side of the strip and the backingmember.

2. A mount for cards and the like comprising, in combination, a backingmember, a exible body of sheet material having a gum coating on andco-extensive with its rear side, a non-adhesive outer side, and atransverse incision denning a free'end of a tab integral with said body.said tab being bent outward from the body and folded against thenon-adhesive side of the body with its non-adhesive side inward andfacing the non-adhesive outer side of the body, and its gummed sideoutward, and exposed, the gummed inner side of the body being attachableto the backing member, and a card or the like being attacliable to theexposed gummed side of the tab.

3. A mount as specified by claim l., the strip being provided withscores or creases extending between the ends of theincislons.

4. A mount vas specified by claim 2, the body being provided with ascore or crease extending between the ends of its incisions.

5. A mount as set forth in claim 1, wherein the mounting strip isperforated at intervals so as to form a plurality of individual filingstrips Vadapted to be arranged one beneath the other.'-

uponvthe backing.

6. A mount as set forth in claim l, wherein a plurality of card holdingtabs are arranged in rows, and one rovriftabs Ais adapted to engage thecards on the opposite face from the others.

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